Supervisory General Engineer

Job Overview

Serves as a Senior Engineer Team Lead responsible for the management of major lease construction of VA facilities within the Office of Construction & Facilities Management (CFM), Office of Real Property. Design and construction projects are major renovations, modernization, or new construction for highly specialized medical facilities, nursing homes, energy centers, cemeteries, and administrative facilities designed and constructed to support the Department in the accomplishment of its mission.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/08/2026.

• Manage major lease construction projects for VA facilities.
• Develop strategies and plans for providing continuous, high‑quality, professional, efficient and effective engineering expertise needed to support the construction of major lease projects.
• Provide oversight, direct supervision and authority that is closer to mission execution, enabling timely resolution of operational issues.
• Manage resources and workload, ensuring proper staffing levels for all projects.
• Take ownership of supporting issues, judge situations rationally and objectively, consider risks associated with decisions, and propose viable alternatives to solve day‑to‑day coverage and technical problems.

• Individual Occupational Requirements:
  • Degree:
    Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses more advanced than first‑year physics and chemistry in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress‑strain relationships);
    
    (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR
  • Combination of education and experience – college‑level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
    • Professional registration or licensure – Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
      
      For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
    • Written Test – Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
    • Specified academic courses – Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph
      
      A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph
      
      A.
    • Related curriculum – Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics,…